... Figure 8: Can you detect the motion of the near-Earth asteroid 2000PH against the background stars during its close approach to Earth around 27 July 2004? ... Down) observed and imaged the unusual near-Earth asteroid 2000PH during its close approach to the Earth around 27 July 2004. The observations were carried out remotely using the new 2m aperture Faulkes telescope situated on the 10,000-foot summit of Haleakala, on the island of Maui in Hawaii. ...

... R2517 Date Received: 2009-Jul-02 20:55:18 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Urgent Planetary Radar Solar System 17:00 Hours Urgent Proposal for Arecibo Radar Imaging of Near-Earth Asteroid 2009 KC3 We propose radar observations of potentially hazardous asteroid 2009 KC3, which will be a strong imaging target during its approach within 19 lunar distances in August, 2009. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 CCD observations of planetary satellites and occultations and close approachments of stars by asteroids with 26­ inch refractor of Pulkovo observatory T. P. Kiseleva, I. S. Izmailov, M. A. Mozhaev Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia ST--6 CCD camera has been used with 26-- inch Refractor at Pulkovo for ob­ servations of ... These estimates are \Sigma0:015 arcsec and \Sigma0:014 arcsec for X and Y correspondingly. ...

Next: Some theory Up: userhtml Previous: Calibration . By many measures, the ATCA 3-mm observing band is a completely different domain to the other ATCA bands. ... Not surprisingly many aspects of the data reduction are also different. This chapter reviews the theory behind some of the differences, and then considers a practical approach to calibration. ... Antenna gain considerations and flux calibration . Instrumental phase . Atmospheric phase and phase calibration considerations . ...

Lisnyky observatory of A&SPD is located in the village of Lisnyky in Kyiv region. AZT-8 (right) Diameter 0.7 m, Newton, Cassegren. ... Spiral jets of comet Hale-Bopp have been observing on the 3-rd of April, 1997 with 70-cm reflector and image intensifier, time of exposure: 1 second, field of vision: 1.5 minute of arc. This color image was obtained with Fuji color film (Super Plus 400) in focal plane of the 70-cm reflector (F = 27 m) at Lisniki Observatory by A.M.Evtushevsky. ...

... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Astronomers using ESOБЂ™s Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating fast towards the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed. ... Simulation of gas cloud after close approach to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way . ... ESOcast 39: A Black HoleБЂ™s Dinner is Fast Approaching . ...

... Radio: Large shell, with flatter spectrum component (Vela X), and pulsar nebula. ... Distance: Vela pulsar parallax gives 0.3 kpc, optical spectra and H I studies suggest 0.25 kpc. ... Parkes 64-m at various frequencies, including 408 MHz (48': S=2300?300 Jy), 635 MHz (31': S=2360?300 Jy), 1410 MHz (14': S=1640?300 Jy) and 2650 MHz (7'.5: S=1400?250 Jy), plus discussion of the distance. ... VLA at 330 MHz (1'?1'.8) and comparison with ROSAT observations of Vela X. ADS . ... 2001, ApJ, 549, 416. ...

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... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... ASP E-mail Newsletters . ... The Goddess of Love & the Hand of God: American Observations of the 1769 Transit of Venus . ... Few colonial Americans knew about the transits either when they happened in 1761 and 1769. ... The parallax was an important piece of the scientific jigsaw puzzle, and these stargazers saw the transit as an opportunity to view God's handiwork. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . ... Control of Observations . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . ACCURACY OF THE WORLD NEA OBSERVATIONS . Pulkovo method of accuracy estimation was applied to NEA observations. ... 2005 . 2006 . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 11.10.2000 . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA Explanation: A new spacecraft has entered the outer Solar System: Cassini . Launched in 1997 and bound for Saturn in 2004, Cassini sent back the above image last week while approaching the giant planet Jupiter . ... October 2000 . ... 1997 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - spacecraft - cassini spacecraft . Publications with words: Jupiter - spacecraft - cassini spacecraft . ...

The close position of main satellite and subsatellite (distance between them about 1000 km) and using the similar sets of Faraday cups (VDP and VDP-S) with high resolution measurements (up to 16 Hz for the main satellite and up to 10 Hz for the subsatellite) allow us to determine the small-scale variations of the magnetopause shape and position and to estimate the velocity of the magnetopause motion. ... Two point observation of the magnetopause motion: the INTERBALL project. ...

We present the results of our observations of the white-light corona in polarized light performed at Criciuma eclipse, Brazil. During the observation of 3.11.94 we have made five couple of pictures of the solar corona in polarization light. ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M., Starkova L., Ershov A., Matsuura O .: ... Molodensky M., Starkova L., Koutchmy S., Ershov A .: ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I . ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I. Koutvitsky V. and Ershov A . ...

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... Calibration and analysis of this observation posed very interesting challenges for the authors, in particular dealing with an exciting new instrument whose on-orbit calibration was not yet well defined. ... Five mosaic positions were observed during five consecutive orbits as well as observations for dark and flat calibration. ... Darks and flats had to be created from contemporaneous reference observations and problems within the calibration process had to be resolved. ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...